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This whole thread is about letting young kids drink.....thats pretty bad. They wanna raise the minimum raise at McDonalds to 15 an hour here in the US and people still wanna let there kids drink on a cruise?? Holy smokes, thats bad

just what do the two have to do with each other....

Mimosa is fizzy wine and OJ - no liquor involved.

so what is the orange juice and clear liquor concoction....

I took my nephew on a cruise for his 18th birthday and high school graduation. We had a letter from his parents, which NCL accepted allowing him beer and wine. I think he had maybe two beers the whole weekend cruise.

 

His little sister, who is seven years younger, graduated from high school last year and again I took her on a cruise. This time NCL would not accept a letter from her parents allowing her to have beer and wine. The only thing she was interested in having anyway was a Mimosa. So, it was no big deal.

 

Now I am booked on a cruise next year with my sister, and my niece aforementioned, who will be traveling with her mother. She reminded us she still wants her Mimosa. At the time of the cruise she will be 20.

still can't have that mimosa as it has liquor in it and your 20 year old niece will only be allowed beer or wine if he mother approves.

Mostly that is a recipe for responsible behaviour as one can drink supervised earlier instead of sneaking and doing so in hiding (like already mentioned).

 

As already noted in several posts, it's US that has "backwards laws".

different, yes, backwards no. no different than in driving in oz/great britian/japan is on the left side of the road and most of the rest f the world is on the right side. i wouldn't call oz/great britian/japan -backwards-, just different.

Not sure where you live, but our roads suck. The bridges are ready to fall into the drink . They are always talking about bringing back the toll booths. And sadly a week doesn't go by that you don't read or hear about at least one young person getting killed in a car accident. Not saying all of them are alcohol related . So where is the big gain?

pick a state that has major interstates through it.....say north carolina. could you imagine the amount of money that they could collect by charging a toll on i-95 and i-85 for every time someone from out of state crossed the border. and no one is going to drive 8 hours out of the way to go around the state either.....not cost effective.

The US airs on the side of federal funding.

wouldn't it be funny if a state had the balls to tell the federal government to kiss its butt and go back to 18 for drinking. if the government threatens to pull roadway funding the state threatens to put tolls at every entrance to the state for out of state drivers. a state might even make more money than what the feds provide to boot. :D

I would say the USA airs on the side of caution. It's better to be safe than sorry.

too much caution in the us. rarely is anything worthwhile ever achieved without taking some risks.

Yes it does. I could drink since I was 16 (not hard liquor) beer and wine, I didn't like beer so didn't drink it and would drink wine mixed with a soft drink (all this legally) under adult supervision, no sneaking drinks for me. I was amazed to hear from friends who's drinking all get was older, who were sneaking out of bedroom windows to go drinking in fields!! Doing all sorts of underhand things, and to my mind dangerous things to get there hands on alcohol. Making something illicit does not build a healthy relationship with it. I was 25 before I was even drunk for the first time (and last 😉).

I find it contradictory to sat that someone is an adult at 18, who can vote, get married, have children and serve their country, but are not old enough to decide if can have a beer or not!

you don't have to be an adult to have children......sadly.

Lol, what do you think actually happens to an American without a passport who misses the boat home. Do you think they are really doomed to spend the rest of their days washing dishes in a restaurant in a Caribbean country, never to step foot in their homeland again?

if they keep their documentation in their safe as they should, security removes the documentation from the safe and deliveries it to the port authorities. when the person finally shows up at the dock the port authorities give them their paperwork. security on board ship then clean out the cabin and document everything there and bring the items back to the port of embarkation.

Just a thought. Certainly, I am not ok with people who put towels on chairs at 6 am and don't return of until 3 pm. But. As an example here: last year on the Jewel, I took my kids (6 and 3) to the pool. I put our stuff on a chair and stood at the edge of the pool to supervise. We were there 2-3 hours. I wasn't comfortable sitting that far away from the pool (the chair was in the shade) while the kids were swimming in an overcrowded pool that was too deep for them to touch bottom. Does that make me a "chair hog"?? I was there, just not "sunning" (it wasn't a lounge chair). Should I have put all our towels/sunscreen/cards/shoes somewhere on the floor? Because that's just gross.

 

And that being said, it's a big part of the reason our Jade cruise is booked in the Haven.

if one can lay a towel on the sand at the beach and put stuff on it and that is okay why is putting stuff on a towel on the deck of a ship gross :confused:

It really is a shame that a guy old enough to put on a uniform and defend his country cannot have a beer but thanks to our spineless congress(no upper-case letter for them any more, not worthy) they are sort of not allowed.

 

I'm pretty certain that the parent must be travelling with them to sign the waiver.

while being of the same age as military members is immaterial in my opinion, actual military members should be allowed, but are not.

op, as an fyi, your son and his friend can drink in most ports if they so desire even if they can't drink on ship.

That is what we carry also. Everyone has me concerned about that choice though bc you can not fly with it. And if you missed your ship, I am assuming I would need to fly somewhere.

that would be preferable to swimming. ;)

Didn't know the Jade has a Haven area. :confused: